Chapter 27

I spent as long as I could in the bathroom, making sure I did everything I could possibly do tonight and even in the morning, fully intending to just exit the bathroom and climb into bed. When I came out, he was watching the television intently, a look of amazement on his face, jaw open.

He had stumbled onto a porno.

Honestly, I didn’t know what kind of reaction would be appropriate. Normally, I would have just laughed, made a joke, as nothing of this kind was anything new to me. But clearly, he had never seen this sort of thing before.

“Yeah, you can find pretty much anything on TV these days,” I said, hoping that dismissive statement was the right thing to say.

He turned at looked at me, the look of shock still on his face. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I should not be watching this. I was just changing channels and all of a sudden there it was.” He changed to the next channel.

“It’s okay, Rabi. Watch it if you like.”